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  1. Ben Ruset

    Anyone's kids attend this?

    I just can't wait to have another political fight on the forums!!!
  2. Ben Ruset

    Kayak Karl

    What's the AT like? Rocky? Sandy? Packed dirt? Narrow, wide?
  3. Ben Ruset

    Jerseyman's book recommendation

    Stanford University has a lecture series up on iTunes U about Colonial and Revolutionary America, and one of the lectures was on how the various traditions and folkways from England came over, and how things like population density, availability of labor, and availability of women affected the...
  4. Ben Ruset

    Apple Pie Hill Tower Smashed Again

    Bear Swamp was moved "inadvertently" though.
  5. Ben Ruset

    Climbing the fire tower near Rt 72 in Lebanon State Forest

    Apple Pie Hill is still in use?
  6. Ben Ruset

    Gallery Software Updated

    Mark, I think it might be fixed. The image you sent me uploaded fine. But, how many images are you uploading at a time? What happens when you upload one at a time? Can you get me a screenshot of the error that you see? Thanks!
  7. Ben Ruset

    Adams house

    That house has a case of identity crisis. Farmhouse? Victorian? Eh, why not both?
  8. Ben Ruset

    Gallery Software Updated

    Can you email one of the photos to me? bruset@njpinebarrens.com
  9. Ben Ruset

    Gallery Software Updated

    Ooh, things are really broken with the gallery. Fixed.
  10. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    That was a pretty substantial mill. I have a feeling that many of them were not built so well.
  11. Ben Ruset

    Old Pine Barrens Photos Wanted

    Karen Riley, author of Whispers in the Pines: The Secrets of Colliers Mills as well as Voices in the Pines: True Stories from the New Jersey Pine Barrens is working on a Pine Barrens book for Arcadia Publishing. She wanted me to post on the forums asking if anybody had any old photos she could...
  12. Ben Ruset

    Computer

    Windows 7 supports a lot more older hardware than Vista. Check in here and see if it's supported: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/Default.aspx?type=Hardware
  13. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    Amazing how that's managed to stay there for so long without anybody taking it for scrap.
  14. Ben Ruset

    North Jersey hikes

    All roads lead back to here. :)
  15. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    Have I seen the one by Dix?
  16. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    Greene County, GA:
  17. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    Jefferson, TX. Note the giant pile of sawdust. Even 50-100 years later, you can still see mounds at Pine Barrens sawmill sites where sawdust has sat. Here they're making shingles, which would have been common in the Pines as well. "Pine Area, NJ" - Is this Double Trouble?
  18. Ben Ruset

    Historic Sawmill Pictures

    All: I was browsing around on the Library of Congress site and they have a section devoted to Images of America from the Great Depression to WW2. In there are many, many pictures of sawmills similar to those that were in the Pines. Clicking on the image brings you to the page in the LOC where...
  19. Ben Ruset

    2009 Double Trouble Cranberry Harvest

    Thanks! I wouldn't mind seeing that.
  20. Ben Ruset

    Windows 98

    Keep it - it may be a collectors item one day!
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